The Coast Guard and Massachusetts State Police divers are continuing to search today for two missing crew members from the Misty Blue, according to a Coast Guard spokesperson. Michael Roberts, 44, and Jonathan Saraiva, 32, went missing after the Misty Blue rolled over and sank at around 6:30 p.m. Monday, 10 miles off of Nantucket, according to Atlantic Capes Fisheries Inc., which owns the surf clam harvesting vessel. Four members occupied the vessel when the incident happened. Two men, Misty Blue’s Captain Eric Arabian, 44, and a crew member, Colby McMullen 22, were rescued by the fishing vessel Enterprise. click here to read the story 12:35

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here